I think people should be different. I love people who don't go by the rule that you have to be careful because you're old, you have to do this and that, you have to eat this and that.

You can buy a good pasta but when you cook it yourself it has another feeling.

In my films I always wanted to make people see deeply. I don't want to show things, but to give people the desire to see.

This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.

Humor is such a strong weapon, such a strong answer. Women have to make jokes about themselves, laugh about themselves, because they have nothing to lose.

If we opened people up, we’d find landscapes.

Hands are the tool of the painter, the artist.

The tool of every self-portrait is the mirror. You see yourself in it. Turn it the other way, and you see the world .

I'm not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman - not unless she is looking for new images.

I'm still fighting. I don't know how much longer, but I'm still fighting a struggle, which is to make cinema alive and not just make another film.

When I started I did not know I wanted to be a filmmaker. I started - I made a film. Then when I finished I said, Oh my god it's so beautiful - I should be a filmmaker!

Life becomes pleasurable when you are moving in the direction of your calling

Give me a moment I am preparing to drawback to screamLouder than a train overhead below a railroad bridge

Dare to seek knowledge.

Each day is a gift

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

The old idea of a composer suddenly having a terrific idea and sitting up all night to write it is nonsense. Nighttime is for sleeping.

Whenever I don't' have to wear makeup, it's a good day.

I genuinely hit puberty before everyone.

The older I get, the more convinced I am that the space between people who are trying their best to understand each other is hallowed ground.

California is the only state in the union where you can fall asleep under a rose bush in full bloom and freeze to death.